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Regional planners say downtown's 92-sign pedestrian wayfinding network held up under World Cup crowds, and the same playbook could reach other Atlanta districts if the city funds it.
Five routes have already been realigned and more than 30 others are getting adjusted timetables, with knock-on effects for MARTA Mobility paratransit service.
The Japanese restaurant at 1020 Spring St. adds a sushi bar and binchotan-fired robata grill to a Portman Holdings development that now counts five dining concepts open or committed.
At a Midtown roundtable overlooking a gridlocked Spring Street, JPX developer Jarel Portman named a torn-up streetcar network as the Atlanta thing he would most like to bring back.
Riders who leave a car at a MARTA deck overnight will pay more beginning Sept. 14, when the agency's first system-wide parking increase since 2009 takes effect at nine stations.
A 10-unit, income-restricted building aimed at first responders and downtown's workforce is nearing completion on Hilliard Street, with rents capped at $1,250 including utilities.
A 1924 landmark that has spent decades turning its back on Tech Square is getting a new restaurant, a rebuilt lobby and street-level glass meant to pull the public inside.
The Beltline's free driverless shuttle pilot added a stop just north of I-20 serving Morehouse, Spelman and Clark Atlanta, tying the AUC to MARTA's West End station and Lee + White.
Two of Midtown's largest mixed-use projects are landing marquee restaurant tenants this year, adding steakhouses, sushi and high-end Indian dining a short MARTA ride from downtown.
A half-acre of cleared land between the Eastside Trail and the King historical park is on the market for $2 million with city-approved plans for five townhomes and three duplexes.
The Fox's partially covered terrace above the Peachtree Street entrance is now a fully enclosed lounge, giving Marquee Club members a second indoor bar on show nights.
The transit agency that moves most of downtown Atlanta now has a permanent chief: Jonathan Hunt, a 12-year MARTA lawyer who ran the system through the World Cup, drops the interim tag.
More than 50 works fill three floors at 12 Jackson Street SE, where Fabian Williams and Sindy Guerrero-Williams reread a half-century of science fiction as a record of what America feared and built.
After a dozen years of stalled plans on the 19-acre Civic Center property, the first new building is structurally complete and getting its windows and facade.
A $6.7-million pair of three-story buildings on James P. Brawley Boulevard marks the nonprofit's first ground-up construction in Vine City, on land that sat vacant for years.
